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The Bureau of Investigation is formed.

Date: 1908

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One of the bureau's first tasks will be interviewing brothel employees to determine if they have been kidnapped, reflecting the moral panic in this time period about "white slavery" amongst sex workers.

The bureau will be renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).